Nothing like that, it costs more because the sheep will pay the ripoff prices while the rest of us laugh at them

Leave it to you to throw out common sense and reason just to blame it on the sheep. Maybe one day you'll work through whatever insecurity issue that you're having and realize that Apple is a for profit company in it to make money (GO CAPITALISM!), and that a good chunk of people buy their stuff because they personally think it's worth it. That's not up for you to decide, and the only person who you should be laughing at is yourself.

I saw the iPad Mini at BestBuy. I put it side by side with the Nexus and the Kindle HD and the Mini has more screen real estate than the others. It is way lighter also. It is well built. The screen is absolutely gorgeous, but so is the Kindles. In terms of UI speeds, the others are faster but Apple didn't do a bad job with the Mini.

I wonder if there will ever be an Apple discussion thread where people aren't frothing at the mouth to point out how every single Apple customer is a "sheep" and clearly incapable of rationally selecting a tech product based on their needs and requirements.

And I'm also curious to know what makes Apple the bad guy, but other tech companies (such as Microsoft) the poor underdog, who deserve your vociferous support.

Leave it to you to throw out common sense and reason just to blame it on the sheep. Maybe one day you'll work through whatever insecurity issue that you're having and realize that Apple is a for profit company in it to make money (GO CAPITALISM!), and that a good chunk of people buy their stuff because they personally think it's worth it. That's not up for you to decide, and the only person who you should be laughing at is yourself.

As a SMART capitalist I will buy whatever device gives me the vest all around bang for the buck, so far Apple has always fell short of that, as much as I'd like to own a MacBook or an iMac, it just doesn't make good money sense to pay the Apple tax, but that's me and each person is different when spending their money, Capitalism at it's best